Stigmella sakhalinella Puplesis, 1984 Species
Last modified: March 28, 2024, 12:32 p.m.
A fairly common species in Belgium.
Details
- Classification
- Family: Nepticulidae > Genus: Stigmella > Species: Stigmella sakhalinella
- Vernacular names
- Bladrandberkenmineermot (NL), Small Birch Pigmy (EN)
- Synonyms
- Stigmella distinguenda sensu auct., nec (von Heinemann, 1862)
- First mention in Belgium
- De Crombrugghe G. 1907a. Observations sur quelques larves de microlépidoptères des environs de Bruxelles. — Revue mensuelle de la Société entomologique namuroise 7: 11–12. On page 12 (as Nepticula distinguenda Hein.). view page
- Status
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Native
Distribution
Imago
Museum specimens
Specimens in nature
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The larva is yellowish.
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Mine
Bionomics
Egg is usually laid on the underside of the leaf, close to a vein.
The mine starts as a narrow not strongly contorted gallery, not discolouring the leaf tissue and the brown or black coiled frass lying in arches, leaving very narrow clear margins. Often the mine starts near the leaf margin and after the usually early whirls progresses in a straight line beside a rib.
Pupation in a pale buff cocoon among leaf litter.
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Flight periods
The adults fly probably in two generations a year or perhaps in a single protracted generation.
